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Carrie Fisher Reveals “Intense” Affair with Harrison Ford

Ford and Fisher outside the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City in the 70s.

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When Carrie Fisherhonored Harrison Ford at his American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony in 2000, she started off by saying, “Whenever I start to talk, Harrison gets nervous, and you really should stop getting so nervous because I have a terrible memory.” But, thanks to the journals she kept while filming Star Wars, she now has more information about the time they spent together. In her new book, The Princess Diarist, Fisher talks about a romantic tryst she had with Ford while filming Star Wars: A New Hope in 1976, reports People.

At the time, Fisher, who had grown up in Hollywood as the daughter of silver-screen royalty Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, was 19. Ford was a 33-year-old father of two. Her book, which is excerpted in People, goes into detail about their affair, saying that the two first got together after a birthday party for director George Lucas.

“It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend,” she told the magazine.

In the book, she writes that, at such a young age, she experienced a lack of confidence in why a star like Harrison would be with her:

“I looked over at Harrison. A hero’s face—a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow. How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me?”

Fisher has teased her crush for her co-star in the past. “I was obsessed with Harrison long before it became fashionable; I was a trendsetter in that sense. I started a craze,” she said in her A.F.I tribute.

But in a March 2016 interview with Jonathan Ross, the host asked if any of her journals contain memories of a Ford-Fisher hookup. She responded that they “seemed to be trending in that direction.” She wavers a bit; however: “But it didn’t happen!” she insists, before adding: “I haven’t read through to the end. It’s a lot of typing.”

“So it might happen?” Ross asks.

Fisher keeps it interesting: “It might happen, it might not happen.”

People reports that Ford knew Fisher would be disclosing the information in her book and also received a draft before it was published. Vanity Fair has reached out to Fisher, Ford, and The Princess Diarist publisher Penguin Random House for additional comment.

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